Went to dinner Saturday night at Jack Brown's, on the square in M'boro, where there were lots of people without masks. A timely question for The Ethicist (who also has interesting thoughts on the whole idea of patronizing establishments whose employees might rather be working remotely):
The Ethicist columnist on whether participating in a vaccine trial means you can act as if you’re part of an “immune elite”—
"...Even if your optimistic assumptions were borne out, though, you should still join others in wearing a mask in public places. After all, people aren’t going to know why you aren’t wearing one. They may infer that you’re anti-mask or fear that you might pose a threat to them. At the same time, you would be eroding an important social norm. Whatever your personal risk profile, wearing a mask signals your support for a practice that can save lives; it helps maintain a public realm in which all of us do our share to contain transmission. For the same reason, you should continue with social distancing in public places..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/15/magazine/i-got-a-trial-covid-19-vaccine-do-i-still-have-to-wear-a-mask.html?smid=em-share
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